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  • Top MAGA influencers accidentally unmasked as foreign actors

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  • I don't think this is much of a surprise to anyone. What's more interesting to me is that X/Twitter just proved they had the information to know this was going on all along and consequently must have chosen not to intervene. That should raise serious questions of the legal variety.

  • Top MAGA Influencers on X/Twitter Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls

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  • That's a real shocker. /s

  • UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme

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  • That much over budget, huh? Good to know.

  • Trump says Ukraine has ‘zero gratitude’ for peace plan amid international talks

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  • No shit? Neither do the rest of us.

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    Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers.

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  • "What is my purpose?"

    "You are to act as an filter for images uploaded to a small bird-watcher's forum screening for porn..."

    "KILL ME"

  • Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff

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  • Ah, the many joys of Middle Management. To quote The Hitchhiker's Guide to Earth:

    A middle manager’s day typically consists of:

    • Attending meetings they don’t understand about projects they’re not involved in
    • Scheduling meetings for other people who don’t want to attend them
    • Asking for status updates on things that would be finished already if they’d stop asking for status updates
    • Forwarding motivational quotes about “synergy” and “thinking outside the box” while sitting firmly inside a cubicle
    • Explaining to their superiors why things went wrong and to their subordinates why things can’t be fixed

  • Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff

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  • It's almost like those bosses don't have any real work to do. Sounds like dead wood and ideal candidates for downsizing to me.

  • Qualcomm has started enshitification of Arduino

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  • I wouldn't be surprised if they did, given what they evidently already feel entitled to.

  • Qualcomm has started enshitification of Arduino

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  • I was thinking more of the presumption of ownership of customer IP being acquired as part of purchasing a company by way of a ToS change. That just seems like attempted retroactive theft to me.

  • Qualcomm has started enshitification of Arduino

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  • Hmm. That's a good point and sounds like a fairly firm basis for a class action lawsuit.

  • Qualcomm has started enshitification of Arduino

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  • Thank you for taking decisive ethical action. I hope the example you've set will inspire others to act similarly.

  • Gemini 3 Just Made Larry Page World's Third Richest Man

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  • This is getting ridiculous. The disconnect between any kind of materially measurable talent, skill or effort and accrued wealth is just veering well off into being measured in astronomical units at this point. They have "money" because they already had "money" to leverage into making more "money". Except all this "wealth" is backed not by material goods, property or even services, but ephemeral convictions (some might call it faith) of the markets.

    All this so-called wealth ultimately - whether directly or via institutional investors - derive from little people. You know, the ones with real jobs making products or providing services.

    It's fucking absurd and it'll all end in tears.

  • My head hurts...

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  • "...Forget I asked."

  • Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f

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  • Those bicycles (called 'ladcycler') are remarkably useful. People use them for all sorts of things, including transporting their kids to and from kindergarten etc. I've never tried it myself, but the kids always look like they're having a blast.

    The thing is, everything - including supermarkets - tends to be smaller here, but also dotted everywhere. I've got like three different places for daily grocery shopping within easy walking distance (ten minutes each way), and I'm sort of in the suburbs.

    When it comes to trash, public sanitation services are rather effective here. Trash is sorted into paper/cardboard, glass, plastic, organic waste and other. All of them are routinely picked up on different schedules. The first three are recycled, organic waste is either composted or fermented for biogas production with is then used to heat homes or fuel local public transportation (busses). The last category is burned at high temperatures, with the exhaust heavily filtered and the resulting energy used to provided house heating and / or hot water. There are three more infrequent trash collection cycles: Potentially dangerous materials (chemicals, paint, batteries, e-waste), gardening waste (again, composting or biogas - lots of people with gardens do their own composting too - the containers and worm cultures are provided by the municipality for free) and lastly 'large trash'. This is stuff like furniture, fridges, washing machines etc. That's picked up once every month on a specific date. A lot of people recycle or upcycle locally by napping stuff before it's hauled off (which is legal and encouraged).

    All in all, a lot of these things are taken care of by people specializing in it and funded by taxes. We pay more in taxes here, but we also get a lot more services in return.

    If people know they're going to be creating lots of waste of a given type - home improvement or construction - you can have a container delivered and picked back up for a fairly modest fee. Similarly, moving homes is generally handled by dedicated companies in standardized moving crates provided by them. It's not particularly expensive.

  • 'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report

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  • You beat all the rest of us to it.

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  • Hiring implies employment and thus payment. Volunteering implies the opposite. Which is it?

  • Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f

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  • First, things are a lot more compact here. It takes me five to seven minutes to reach the nearest local supermarket on foot. That makes it a lot easier to shop at higher frequency but lower load - good exercise too. Of course, that won't work for larger or special items. For larger loads, locally in Denmark, we've got these wonderful things. Obviously, nobody's going to transport a new fridge or a 1-tonne pallet of wood briquettes on one of those. For that sort of thing, almost all retailers of such things do delivery. It's more efficient. Instead of everybody having to own their own trucks that are used (relatively) infrequently, stores or manufacturers either independently maintain vehicles that are in constant use or out-source that service to companies specializing in handling logistics. It uses less resources for one company to handle maintenance of say, five vehicles servicing the needs of a hundred customers than for all those 100 customers to all have to own their own vehicles with the same capacity.

  • ‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails

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  • I've preemptively solved that issue by not needing one. Win-win.

  • Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f

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  • Please accept my most sincere condolences.